On 12/05/2014 08:16 AM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote:
Am 05.12.2014 um 14:12 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
On 12/05/2014 08:03 AM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote:
Am 05.12.2014 um 14:00 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
I also have ident - port 113 open on the firewall. But not only is it
not open on the server's firewall, I don't see a listen for it with
'netstat -na|grep113'
I do recall that ident was one thing some MTAs wanted. Is that still
so? And if so, should I see a listen on it?
that is all *not* postfix related and for incoming mail you don#t need
anything than port 25
how is *that* related to mail?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident_protocol
I am having to page back at least 3 mailservers ago. I could replug in
my last one (which I have not erased yet) to see if it used it, but
definitely some time ago I remember having to enable ident for mail. Now
was it for MTAs or clients? I am going back at least 6 years here. I
doubt if I can find notes for it.
if at all then for *clients*
And yes, ident could query things like port 25 to see if it is mail.
Thinking back, now this may go back over 10 years and just being carried
forward. And my yahoo problem could well be they don't like the spf
rule that google wanted...
nonsense - the thread you refer to is "No mail from yahoo or ymail"
*from yahoo* = incoming mail
SPF = mail *you send* to the outside world
And that is what I read too. So what is yahoo seeing that I am not
seeing any connections from them? I have read all their 'help' and it
covers sending to yahoo, not yahoo sending out. Old server worked, new
does not. Of course, yahoo could have changed their policy about that
time too. After all, I only started getting the gmail bounces on
needing an spf a week before the switch and I have very few yahoo
contacts. But gmail was clearly them not accepting my emails.
may i recommend that you do your homework *first* before consider plug
a public reachable MTA to the internet?
I have done a lot of homework. But I know I don't know even 80% of it.
Plus a lot is old stuff (like Ident, it seems and dsylexic port rules)
that don't do anything BAD, but should have been cleared out long ago
after no longer being needed.
